Japan confirms second new virus infection


Travelers wearing protective masks walking through a departure hall at Narita Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Chinese officials moved to halt travel from Wuhan, essentially locking down a city of 11 million people, on FRiday (Jan 24). - Bloomberg

TOKYO: Japan has detected a second case of a new virus in the country that has infected hundreds of people in China, the government said on Friday (Jan 24).

A visitor from the central Chinese city of Wuhan has been hospitalis ed in Tokyo after the second pneumonia case caused by the potentially deadly virus was confirmed.

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